Friends of the Bitterroot is devoted to the preservation of wildlands and wildlife by advocating for forest and watershed protections.
Bitterroot Valley, MT
Joined December 2021
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Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
“The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wilderness system, not to establish any particular use.” — Howard Zahniser, Wilderness Act author
📸 Bisti De Na Zin Wilderness by BobWick/BLM
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
Trump and the mining industry want to bring toxic mining to the doorstep of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Write your rep and senators urge them to co-sponsor and pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act.
—> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
Holland Lake and the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana are once again threatened by potential new development and excessive recreation due to a flawed U.S. Forest Service permitting process for the Holland Lake Lodge.
Full details and talking points >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
Thorough coverage of the study that Dr. Chad Hanson and Dr. Dominick DellaSala published recently with Australian professor, David Lindenmayer and others, challenging widespread assumptions about thinning as a fire management strategy:
abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
"Birds’ respiratory systems are incredibly efficient at producing the oxygen required to fly. But they are also more vulnerable to the effects of smoke ...". BLM & FS year-round prescribed burning kills adults and chicks with smoke, harms people too.
counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
We're urging the Bureau of Land Management to drop its plan for cutting and thinning trees in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon and instead protect the area’s wilderness character. #KeepItwild
wildernesswatch.org/wilderne…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
The "extinction caucus" in Congress wants to gut the Endangered Species Act even as the world faces a biodiversity and extinction crisis!
Speak up to stop this brazen attack on the ESA and help save America’s imperiled plants and wildlife!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
"It really looks like this is Donald Trump and Elon Musk trying to party like it’s 1899,” Weiss said. “We’re returning to an era with robber barons and smokestacks and measles.” Streamlined permitting process may lead to shortcuts in environmental review.
9news.com/article/news/polit…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
If you value Wilderness and the wildlife that call it home, please consider becoming a Wilderness Watch member.
Now's a great time to join, because all donations up to $30,000 will be matched—DOUBLED—by one of our generous members!
Donate today —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
"For the first time in the Wilderness Act’s history, it's made an exception for a recreation group to do something that involves tools or equipment in wilderness areas that the Wilderness Act would otherwise prohibit.” – Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch
nationalparkstraveler.org/20…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 # 𝟕𝟔: 𝐈𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩? (𝐰/ 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝)
youtu.be/-LXm3AyxnG4?si=qLoI…
#environment #environmentalperspectives
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
“Judge Dale’s careful reconsideration of this lawsuit reaffirms that Idaho’s wolf trapping program presents an unlawful risk of death and harm to imperiled grizzly bears in the state,” said Dana Johnson, attorney and policy director for Wilderness Watch.
earthjustice.org/press/2025/…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
𝟑 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬
eco-integrityalliance.org/20…
#wildfire #forest #wildfires #forests #fixourforests
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
Roughly 87 miles of the 219-mile Flathead Wild and Scenic River System in Montana runs through the gorges and valleys of one of America’s most celebrated Wilderness areas—the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
Please act by February 7 to Keep It Wild!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
America's National Wilderness Preservation System protects the wild habitat that wildlife need to survive and thrive!
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
Ecologist George Wuerthner explains how “fuel reduction” logging can worsen the climate crisis.
#forest #wildfire #forests #wildfires #climate #climatechange #climateaction #climateemergency
@ForRockies @tsuga_wilson @laketahoevibes @NoClearcuts @JohnMuirProject
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
This is NOT “community protection” or “forest health”. It’s #ecocide and increased 🔥 danger. We need to demand logging and “thinning” subsidies are used on home and infrastructure hardening instead. We need evac routes, buried utilities, home-out defensible space. #CAwx #Climate
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
A warm and wild welcome to Larry Campbell, who has recently joined our Board of Directors!
Larry's a longtime Wilderness, public lands, and wildlife activist who helped co-found @Savebitterroot—one of the partner groups we work closely with.
Welcome aboard, Larry!
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
Boondoggle BLM project stopped for now! The craven cow-huggin' BLM wanted to bulldoze cow water holes in beautiful areas in these dry-as-a- bone upland sites - for the Nature Conservancy/Conspiracy's "kept" cowboys. In Bears Ears!
thewildlifenews.com/2025/01/…
Friends of the Bitterroot retweeted
"This goal—safeguarding the freedom to remain wild, protecting these timeless natural rights—is the ultimate goal of wilderness protection."
wildernesswatch.org/the-next…
